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Jackson trade card (advertisement)

Archive Item: MS 2241/4/3/202 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Jackson trade card (advertisement)

Level: Item

Classmark: MS 2241/4/3/202

Collector's Number: EM/224

Creator(s): Jackson

Site Location(s): Based in - London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom( 51.5085, -0.12574 )

Date(s): c.1900

Size and medium: 1 trade card (advertisement)

Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/q6zr11m1

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/721513

Collection group(s): Art and Antique Market | John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History

Description

Pictorial late 19th or early 20th century chromolithographed trade card (advertisement) of Jackson, depicting bottle of Jackson's Lavender Furniture Cream to left of card on bronze panel. Three formulas of polish and varnish highlighted in bronze ink.


Transcription: FOR WELL KEPT HOMES USE JACKSON'S VARNISH STAINS For making shabby floor boards look like Parquet. To imitate Light Oak, Dark Oak, Walnut, Rosewood, Ebony, Mahogany, Satinwood, Oak, Leaf Green... They dry hard quickly with a beautiful surface and are easily renewed. CAMPHORATED WAX POLISH Will keep Stained floors in good condition, and make Linoleum look and wear well for many years. LAVENDER FURNITURE CREAM Is the finest Polish for good and valuable Furniture ever offered. It is delightfully fragrant. Will not finger-mark. Very economical, a little going a long way. Packed in Doulton Art Jars, which when empty are an ornament to any room. Patterns of the different Stains can be seen in Ironmongery Department. FREE BOOKLET - "FLOWERS, FLOORS, FURNITURE." Works - MALT STREET, OLD KENT ROAD, S.E. Contractors to H. M. Admiralty, War Office. Crown Agent for the Colonies, etc.

Physical characteristics

Technique: chromolithograph

Medium: print

Support: paper

Object: width 127mm height 100mm

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